Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, fruitcakes can also be thrown into melting pots. There is a danger in the spread of American cultural imperialism. Gresham's Law may prove to be true as American mass culture threatens to absorb the diversity and richness of different cultures, not only within America, but also outside its borders. The French realize this when they picket EuroDisney. The New England Quebecers are only finding out. A world in which ethnic cultures become Americanized and passed off as representatives of their true forms would be a shame...
Others admit that U.S. job prospects are cramped, but then go on to make a virtue of necessity. "There are about 12 million students in colleges across the country, and this economy cannot absorb all of them," says Michael Kahan, a political science professor at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He tells his students, all within a subway ride of Wall Street, to think globally if they can't find work at home. "Their skills could be put to better use in less developed places like Mexico and the former Soviet Union," Kahan argues...
...investigators agree that although the danger has not been proved, it is too plausible to ignore. The chain of reasoning goes something like this: animals exposed to high doses of these pollutants in the wild develop reproductive abnormalities. Animals exposed to low doses in the lab do too. Humans absorb comparable low doses simply by breathing, drinking and especially eating. Some of the suspect chemicals have physiological effects similar to those of estrogen and other sex hormones, or they at least interact with them; they might reasonably be expected to interfere with processes involving these hormones, such as the menstrual...
...totally can't believe it. I feel like I've been screwed," said one junior government concentrator who passed up Hoffmann and Broz, hoping to absorb Nye's first-hand knowledge of foreign policy this year...
Guillory and Fish are wonderful as the only members of the company who don't want to be on stage, yet constantly find themselves called to step in as the cast's backstage dramas absorb them more than their entrances and cues...